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Gold Circle Films has brought onboard three co-writers from the Golden Globe-nominated, Halle Berry drama Frankie & Alice to remake the Taiwanese supernatural thriller Silk. Written/directed by Chao-Bin Su, the 2006 pic (originally titled Gui si) tells the story of a group of scientists who manage to trap a child's ghost in an apartment. From there, the film centers on the detective who is responsible for learning the ghost's identity and the cause of its demise. The writers being charged with the remake are Marko King, Mary King and Jonathan Watters. According to Heat Vision, the trio will look to steer away from the plot of the original with the hopes of creating a film that plays like "Michael Crichton meets The Sixth Sense." Paul Brooks, Rob Cowan (The Crazies), Robin Jonas (Mr. Brooks) and Scott Niemeyer will co-produce the pic for Gold Circle. Speaking of which, the studio is currently...

As much as I hate to admit it, John Woo's tenure directing American films can only be described as a massive failure. With far more misses than hits, he was just never quite able to adapt his style and visual flair to American productions, with the results usually ending up poorly executed. While Broken Arrow and Face/Off entertained audiences when they came out, re-visiting them shows them to be pretty weak films. And his bad films (Mission: Impossible 2, Hard Target) are really bad. Which is a shame, because his earlier work in Hong Kong (The Killer, A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled being excellent examples) are far superior.

He's recently gone back to China and to making Chinese-language films, and he's hit his stride once again. 2008's Red Cliff was adored by our fearless Prisco, who said,"there wasn't a single moment that felt anything less than poetic.

TORONTO -- Canadian independent movie distributor Motion Picture Distribution LP on Monday said it has picked up the exclusive Canadian rights to Silk, the Keira Knightley-starring Japanese period drama from Quebec director Francois Girard. Based on the novel of the same name by Alessandro Baricco, Silk will be co-produced by Toronto-based Rhombus Media, which partnered with Girard on his last film, the Samuel L. Jackson starrer The Red Violin, released in 1998. The Canadian rights deal follows Bob Berney's Picturehouse and New Line International last week acquiring all rights to Girard's romantic drama.

Picturehouse and New Line International have acquired rights to Francois Girard's Silk, a world-hopping romantic drama starring an international cast headed by Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho and Alfred Molina. The deal was announced Friday by Picturehouse president Bob Berney; Rolf Mittweg, president and chief operating officer of New Line worldwide distribution and marketing; and Camela Galano, president of New Line International. Based on the novel by Alessandro Baricco, Silk is the story of Herve Joncour, a 19th century French silkworm merchant who travels to Japan, where he begins a forbidden romance. Girard and Michael Golding have adapted the screenplay for the film, to be produced by Niv Fichman, Nadine Luque, Domenico Procacci and Sonoko Sakai.